Post-hole auger



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POST HOLE AUGER.

110.317.491. .Patented May 12, 1885.l

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POST HOLE AUGER..

Patented May 12, 1885.

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UNITED STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BENsE AND ABRAHAM sIEvEa'r, or ROCKY RIDGE, OHIO.

POST-HOLE AUGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,491, dated May l2, 1885.

Application filed November 12, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN BENsE and ABRAHAM SIEvERr, citizens ot' the United States, residing at Rocky Ridge, in the county of Ottawa and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Post-Hole Angers, of which the following is a specifica` tion, reference being had to thevaccompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to posthole angers 5 and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of the machine in the working posi tion. Fig. 2 is a side view of the machine in position for drawing out ofthe post-hole. Fig. is a longitudinal central section showing the machine in the position for knocking the dirt from the auger. Fig. 4 is a rear View, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line x :n in Fig. 4.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the platform of the machine, which is mounted on two runners, B, and two wheels, C, and is provided with handles D, by which to move it from place to place.

D D are uprights rising from the platform near its front end. These uprights D D are connected at their upper ends by a girder, E, and are provided with metal ways F for the sliding frame G, which carries the gearing by which the auger is operated. The metal ways F extend from the top of the girder E to the sills of the platform A.

The handles vD are mortised through vertically at D2, and in said mortises D2 are pivoted vertical rack-bars H, which extend up as high as the top of the girder E. The upper ends of the vertical rack-bars H are kerfed at H4, and in these kerfs are pivoted the connected dogs or catch-arms I. The arms I work in kerfs I in the girder E, and are prevented from leaving said kerfs I by staples I2, driven over them into the girder E.

Theuprights D D and girder E are stren gthcned by an arched brace, E, and a wear-plate, E2, traverses the rear face of` the girder E, and prevents the dogs I from wearin g the girder E.` The girder E is recessed vertically in (No model.)

its rear face at E3, and in this recess a springcatch, J, plays.

G designates a sliding frame, which carries y,

the gearing by which the auger is operated. The sliding frame G is provided with lugs d, which enga-ge the metal ways F and guide said sliding frame when raised and lowered, The transverse shaft L of the gearing', by which the auger M is operated, is provided, near each end, with a pinion, N, which engage the pivoted rack-bars H when the auger is to be elevated out of the post-hole, and this shaft L is also provided with a bevel gear-wheel, I), engaging a similar gear-wheel, P2, on the upper end of the auger-shaft P', which latter is journaled in bearings Q on the swinging frame R, hinged upon the transverse shaft L of the sliding frame G. The lower transverse bar, G, of the sliding frame Gis provided with spring-catches G2, which engage the lower bar of the swinging frame R, and hold the frame R in its normal position until it is designed to knock the dirt from the auger, at which time the sliding frame G is at the upper end of the ways, and is locked in place by the spring-catch J. While in this position the cranks can be operated to knock the au ger against the rod R between the handles, and thus jar the dirt that has adhered to the auger.

The transverse shaft L is provided, near one of its bearings, with a cross-pin, U, (see Fig. 1,) which engages a springarm, V, (see Fig. 4,) projecting upwardly from the upper cross-bar, W, of the swinging frame R, and prevents the ldriving-shaft L from turning backward, and

causes the auger to be swung out against the rod It', aga-inst which it may be repeatedly knocked to shake the dirt from the auger, should it adhere thereto.

Springs X are provided near the lower ends of the uprights, and bear against the pivoted rack-bars near their lower ends, and force them out when the catch-arms I are released from the keeper on the girder.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. The combination, with the platform having the vertical ways connected by a girder having a springcatch, of the hinged rack-bars IOO having the hinged connected dogs, and the sliding frame with the transverse crank-shaft with pinions and miter-gear, and the swinging frame having the auger-hit with a mitergear at its upper end, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the transverse shaft L, having bearin gs in the sliding frame pinions to engage the raclbbars, the augershaft, and gears on the latter and ou the transverse shaft, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with the truck having the verticalways and across-rod, R', of the sliding frame moving on the ways, and a swinging frame carrying the auger and attached to the sliding frame, as and for the purpose set forth.

-6.= The combination, with the truck having the vertical ways, of the sliding frame carrying the swinging frame with the auger7 and spring-catches for the swinging frame, as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signa' tures in presence of two witnesses. JOHN BENSE. ABRAHAM SIEVERT. Vitnesses D. BARRINGER, J onN Rnsnn. 

